Princeton University

A Princeton-Manchester Colloquium
Sponsored by Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University
Princeton, September 25 & 26, 2009

211 Dickinson Hall

FRIDAY, September 25

1:30 p.m.

Session 1 (Chair: Gyan Prakash)

Welcome and Introduction

1. Michael Laffan (Princeton)

Cairo and the limits of the Cosmopolitan

2. Stephen Hutchings (Manchester)

Transnationalising Islam: Theoretical Conundrums and Cosmopolitan Potentials

3:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

4:00 p.m.

Session 2 (Chair: Gyan Prakash)

1. Jackie Stacey (Manchester

Cosmopolitanism as Transparency: Architectures of Intimacy in Code 46

2. Felicia Chan (Manchester)

Reading culture, memory and history in Ang Lee’s Lust Caution

3. Devin Fore (Princeton)

‘The First Shoe-Maker of Russian Cinema’: Vertov’s Materialist Medialogy

SATURDAY, September   26

10:00 a.m.

Session 3 (Chair: Galin Tihanov)

1. Ben Baer (Princeton)

Who Represents the Cosmopolis?

2. Maria DiBattista (Princeton

Native Cosmopolitans

3. Robert Spencer (Manchester)

Cosmopolitan Humanism

12.15-1.30: Lunch Break

1:30 p.m.

Session 4 (Chair: Jackie Stacey)

1. Atreyee Sen (Manchester)

A sea of ‘others’: Tibetan refugees, Indian ‘hosts’, Richard Gere and navigating cosmopolitanisms in Dharamsala

2. Stephen Reyna (Manchester)

Perpetual peace? Contradictions, Reproductive Fixes, and Global Warring in the Fields of Contemporary Empire

3:00 p.m.   Coffee Break

3:30 p.m.

Session 5 (Chair: Nina Glick-Schiller)

1. Serguei Oushakine (Princeton )

Variety Shows of Soviet Internationalism: Circus, Theater or Musical?

2. Galin Tihanov (Manchester)

Cosmopolitanism in the Landscape of Modernity

5:00 p.m.   Break

5:15 p.m. Concluding Discussion